Acres of Books will be closed
Friday, July 4, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 7:00-9:00pm,
Reading & Music: Jasmine
Dream Wagner, poet and musician will read and play, along
with other musical guests, and with author Sean Hill.
Jasmine Dreame Wagner graduates
from the MFA program at UMT-Missoula this spring. She has
published poems in journals including Verse, American Letters
& Commentary, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Seattle
Review, North American Review, Columbia Review, and 32 Poems.
A graduate of Columbia University, she was a writer-in-residence
at The Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education in Townshend,
Vermont. Her chapbook, "Charcoal," surveys and deconstructs
the language and visual field of the American urban ruin from
the remains of the 9/11 site and the Greenpoint Terminal Market
fire to the eroded mines and mills of the former western frontier.
"Charcoal" is coming out this spring in collaboration
with printmaker Matthew Trygve Tung and is part of a
commission on the behalf of Window Gallery (formerly PS2 Gallery)
in Long Island City, New York. There will be a printing of
200. Wagner also performs in the experimental folk collective
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.
http://www.cabinetofnaturalcuriosities.com
http://www.myspace.com/jasminedreamewagner
Sean Hill's book, Blood Ties
and Brown Liquor, was released this March from University
of Georgia Press. The poems explore Hill's hometown, Milledgeville,
Georgia, offering a portrait of the town's
black community. A multitude of voices rises from the pages
to celebrate familial love, memory, and yearning, and to confront
racism.
Of it, Kevin Young, author of For the Confederate Dead writes,
"Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop:
these are among the select few whose first books signaled
a new vision of form and vernacular, an everyday elegance.
We can now add Sean Hill's transcendent debut to that remarkable
list. Blood Ties & Brown Liquor
is the real thing—a book to believe in." Sean Hill
has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston Creative Writing
Program, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener
Fellowship for poetry. He has also received fellowships from
Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and
the University of Wisconsin, and work-study scholarships to
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His poems have appeared in
Callaloo, Indiana Review, lyric
poetry review, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter,
Gulf Coast, and other literary journals, and in the anthologies
Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, and The Ringing Ear. He was
recently awarded a Travel and Study Grant from the Jerome
Foundation and a Stegner
Fellowship from Stanford.
Friday, July 11, 7:30pm, OPEN
MIC
Saturday, July 12, 4:00-6:00
pm, Buddhism 101 Class: "Who or what is a Buddha?"
Saturday, July 12, 6:00-9:00pm,
HOBO ALLEY MUSIC with Lobster Boss, Guppies and Pregnant Virgins
Saturday, July 12, 7:00-9:00pm,
Reading & Book Signing with British thriller and mystery
author Simon Wood, who is on tour promoting his newest novel
WE ALL FALL DOWN.
WE ALL FALL DOWN:
Hayden Duke is a young man
on the fast track. He's just signed on with Marin Design Engineering
to work on a very high-level project. But before Hayden started,
one of MDE's employee's committed suicide. And he's not the
only one. Is it the pressure? Or is there some other connection?
Has Hayden Duke just put himself on the fast track to an early
death?
WE ALL FALL DOWN…when
the innocent are victimized.
A clever, suspenseful page-turner
with twists and turns every step of the way. WE ALL FALL DOWN,
will appeal to fans of Joseph Finder and Stephen Frey.
Dorchester Publishing will be releasing this book under the
Leisure Thriller imprint July 1st, 2008.
Dorchester Publishing
ISBN: 0-8439-5980-0
http://www.simonwood.net
http://www.myspace.com/simonwoodwrites
Friday, July 18, 7:30pm, OPEN MIC
COMEDY NITE
Friday, July 25, 7:30pm, OPEN
MIC
All events are
free and refreshments will be provided. For more information
please call Acres of Books 562.437.6980 or you can email Raun
Yankovich at ronyankovich@yahoo.com
